Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Doctoral Program: Ronald Armstrong, Rutgers Business School (RBS), 180 University Avenue, Room 200F, Ackerson Hall (973-353-5371; email: phdinfo@andromeda.rutgers.edu; website: http://www.phd-business.rutgers.edu)

The doctoral program is administered separately from the Rutgers M.B.A. program. For information about programs leading to the M.B.A. degree, visit the Rutgers Business School admissions office website at http://www.business.rutgers.edu or the department at Room 115, Engelhard Hall, 190 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102-1813 (973-353-1234; fax: 973-353-1592; email: admit@business.rutgers.edu).

Members of the Graduate Faculty

From the Accounting, Business Ethics, and Information Systems Departments

Michael Alles, RBS; Ph.D., Stanford
Managerial accounting; strategic control systems

Wayne Eastman, RBS; J.D., Harvard Law
Employment and labor law; history and politics of managerial and legal theory; law and economics; litigation strategy

Peter R. Gillett, RBS; Ph.D., Kansas
Auditing; information systems; uncertain reasoning; quantitative methodologies; philosophy

Suresh Givindaraj, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Financial analysis, executive compensation, taxes

Leonard Goodman, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate taxation; history of taxation; international accounting

Elizabeth Gordon, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
International financial accounting

Edwin Hartman, RBS; Ph.D., Princeton
Business ethics; character and organizational culture

Bikki Jaggi, RBS; Ph.D., Free University of Berlin (Germany)
Financial accounting; cost accounting; environmental accounting; social accounting

Alex Kogan, RBS; Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences
Internet technology and electronic commerce; knowledge-based decision support systems; accounting information systems; reasoning under uncertainty; productivity accounting and data analysis

Kevin Kolben, RBS; J.D., Michigan
Labor rights; international labor law; corporate social responsibility; international trade law; Asian business; South and Southeast Asia

Yaw M. Mensah, RBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Managerial accounting; efficiency evaluation; nonprofit institutions; financial accounting; information in capital markets

Paul J. Miranti Jr., RBS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
American business history; government accounting; not-for-profit accounting

Dan Palmon, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate finance; financial reporting; general accounting theory 

Michael A. Santoro, RBS; Ph.D., Harvard
Business ethics; international business and human rights; high-tech entrepreneurship; intellectual property; technical standards

Glenn R. Shafer, RBS; Ph.D., Princeton
Audit judgment; causal modeling and uncertain reasoning; expert systems; information systems; statistical reasoning

Jay Soled, RBS; J.D., Michigan
Business taxation; charitable trusts; estate planning

Ephraim F. Sudit, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Cost management; pricing; productivity-based management; quality management

Lili Sun, RBS; Ph.D., Kansas
Auditing; financial accounting

Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, RBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Accounting systems; expert systems; ecommerce

Daniel Warren, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Global business ethics and management

From the Finance and Economics Department

Ivan E. Brick, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Corporate finance; the impact of default risk, taxes, and asymmetric information upon the type of financial securities issued by firms; capital budgeting

Ren-Raw Chen, RBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Financial markets; risk management; securities

N.K. Chidambaran, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate finance and financial derivatives

Michael A. Crew, RBS; Ph.D., Bradford
Regulatory economics, peak-load pricing, and the theory of monopoly

Sharon Gifford, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Contract theory; economics of organizations; economics of information; entrepreneurship

Mahmud Hassan, RBS; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Economics; health economics-labor management

Simi Kedia, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Finance; corporate finance; governance; compensation; diversification

Farrokh K. Langdana, RBS; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic and State
Fiscal and monetary policies; global macroeconomic policies; macroeconomic experimentation

Cheng-Few Lee, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Corporate finance; security analysis; portfolio management; options and futures; risk management

Kuan-Hui Lee, RBS; Ph.D., Ohio
Empirical asset pricing; international finance; liquidity; market microstructure; short sale

Michael S. Long, RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Corporate finance; valuation; entrepreneurship

Darius Palia, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate finance; banking; corporate governance

Oded Palmon, RBS; Ph.D., Chicago
Corporate finance; taxation

Robert H. Patrick, RBS; Ph.D., New Mexico
Applied microeconomics; applied econometrics; natural resource and environmental economics; regulation of network industries

S. Abraham Ravid, RBS; Ph.D., Cornell
Corporate finance; debt markets; privatization production and financial decisions; taxation

Tavy Ronen, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Market microstructure; corporate finance

Ben J. Sopranzetti, RBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Banking; corporate finance; derivative securities

Dan Weaver, RBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Market microstructure; security design

Yangru Wu, RBS; Ph.D., Ohio State
International finance; asset pricing; applied time-series analysis

Feng Zhao, RBS; Ph.D., Cornell
Asset pricing; term structure modeling; derivatives; financial econometrics

From the Management Science and Information Systems Department 

Nabil R. Adam, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Database systems; digital libraries; electronic commerce; scheduling; simulation

Farid Alizadeh, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Software for optimization with simultaneous linear, convex, quadratic, and semidefinite constraints; application of semidefinite programming to combinatorial optimization and statistics

Ronald D. Armstrong, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Integer programming; network flow theory; statistical application of mathematical programming

Vijay Atluri, RBS; Ph.D., George Mason
Clinical information systems; database management systems; distributed systems; information systems security; workflow management systems

Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, RBS; D.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology
Operations research; electric energy generation; telecommunication networks; stochastic modeling

Michael Barnes, RBS; Ph.D., Yale

Adi Ben-Israel, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Convexity and inequalities; matrix theory; optimization theory; numerical analysis; dynamic programming; optimal control; economics of uncertainty; management of natural resources

Andre Boros, RUTCOR; Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd (Budapest)
Discrete optimization

Jonathan Eckstein, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimization algorithms; parallel computing and applications

Richard Goodwin, RBS; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Douglas Jones, RBS; Ph.D., Florida State
Bayesian methods; computerized psychological and educational testing; data analysis

Michael N. Katehakis, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Dynamic programming; reliability; queuing; sequential statistics; operations management

Lei Lei, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Project scheduling; scheduling of transport; vehicle dispatching and routing

Benjamin Melamed, RBS; Ph.D., Michigan
Modeling of telecommunications systems; stochastic processes; analysis and simulation; software modeling environments

Vimla Patel, Columbia; Ph.D., McGill (Canada)
Comprehension of medical information; decision making

Michael H. Rothkopf, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applied mathematical modeling; auctions and competitive bidding; applications of operations research; energy models

Andrzej Ruszczynski, RBS; Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Stochastic programming; stochastic control; financial engineering; risk management

David F. Shanno, RBS; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Mathematical optimization; linear and nonlinear programming; large-scale modeling

Barit Shariq, CIMIC-RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Information security; access control; distributed multimedia systems

Zachary Stoumbos, RBS; Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Technology
Decision theory; experimental design; operations and production management; quality control; regression analysis; sequential analysis; total quality management and reengineering

Jaideep Vaidya, RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Confluence of privacy/security; data mining and databases; security and privacy issues raised by data mining; data mining techniques applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources; applied cryptography and secure multiparty computation techniques; use of data mining for enhancing security

Hui Xiong, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Data mining; statistical computing; geographic information systems; biomedical informatics; information security

Xiaowei Xu, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Supply chain management; revenue management; retail management

Yao Zhao, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Forecasting; production-inventory systems; information sharing; supply chain integration; distribution and logistics; integration of financial and operational decisions dynamic programming and optimal stochastic control

From the Marketing Department

J. Douglas Carroll, RBS; Ph.D., Princeton
Data analytic techniques; human learning, perception, cognition, and choice behavior; multidimensional scaling; quantitative models in marketing 

S. Chan Choi, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Price competition; competitive product positioning; quantitative models in marketing

Harsharanjeet Jagpal, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Advertising; new products; sales force compensation

Barbara Stern, RBS; Ph.D., CUNY
Consumer choice; gender and consumer behavior; literary theory and advertising; values and advertising

From the Management and Global Business Department:

John Cantwell, RBS; Ph.D., Reading
Analysis of corporate technological change and international business

Chao C. Chen, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Cross-cultural management; China; reward allocation; leadership; managing diversity

Ya-Ru Chen, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Cross-cultural management; intergroup relations; negotiation; justice and conflict resolution

Theresa S. Cho, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Executive team composition; executive compensation; managerial cognition and decision making and negotiation; strategic adaptation

Petra Christmann, RBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Strategic management and international business with a focus on environmental management; firm self-regulation in the global economy; emergence of global standards and their effects on firm strategies; international diffusion of management practices

Farok J. Contractor, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Foreign investment and markets; global enterprises; joint ventures; licensing

Fariborz Damanpour, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Corporate governance; management of innovations and technology; organizational design and development

Nancy DiTomaso, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Diversity in organizations; labor force; managing knowledge-based organizations; organizational change and transformation; organizational culture; women, minorities, and cross-cultural management

Deborah Dougherty, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizational capacities for sustained product/service innovation in complex organizations

John H. Dunning, RBS; Ph.D., Southampton (UK)
Foreign direct investment; globalization; trade theory; capitalism; global economy; industrial economics; determinants and consequences of international direct investment

George F. Farris, RBS; Ph.D., Michigan
Managing technological innovation; managing technology; stimulating creativity; technological entrepreneurs; technological innovators

Susan Feinberg, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Economic and policy environment and its relation to the operations of multinationals

Michelle Gittelman, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Terri Kurtzberg, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Email communication; negotiation strategies and tactics; organizational creativity

Daniel Levin, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Knowledge transfer; organizational learning; organizational change and innovation

Donald L. McCabe, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Cheating in college; college education and ethical development; ethical decision making

William E. Newburry, RBS; Ph.D., New York
International business and management

dt ogilvie, RBS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Creativity in decision making; executive leadership strategies; strategic decision making; minority women's leadership; ecommerce/ebusiness strategy

Phyllis Siegel, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
CEO self-handicapping; executive compensation; linkage between strategy and organizational behavior/human resource management; organizational justice and trust

James Wade, RBS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Top management team issues; industry evolution; technological evolution of standards; the impact of inter- and intraorganizational personnel flows on organizational and industry level outcomes

From Rutgers-New Brunswick, Statistics Department

Lawrence Shepp, Rutgers-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Probabilistic, combinatorial, and statistical analysis of models for problems arising in physics, engineering, and communications; computed tomography; automatic pattern recognition; probabilistic models for phase transitions; connectedness of random graphs; mathematics of finance; genetics

From Rutgers-Camden, School of Business

Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Temple
Shoppers with disabilities; time perception and use; scale development; subcultural consumer behavior

Julie E. Kendall, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Nebraska
Hypertext; organizational implications of push and pull information technologies; qualitative methods

Kenneth Kendall, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Emerging information systems technologies; expert systems; artificial intelligence

From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Computer Science Department

James Calvin, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., Stanford
Probabilistic analysis of algorithms; global optimization; information-based complexity; search theory; applied probability

Narain Gehani, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., Cornell
Ecommerce; web technologies; database security; programming languages 

James Geller, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Artificial intelligence; database systems; object-oriented systems; parallel reasoning; knowledge-based systems; expert systems; natural language processing; character recognition

Joseph Leung, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Scheduling theory; real-time systems; operating systems; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; design and analysis of algorithms

James McHugh, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., New York (Courant Institute)
Collaborative software development; open source development; cognitive science; string processing algorithms; algorithmic graph theory; internet technologies; security

Ali Mili, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., Illinois
Software architecture; software reuse; software emetrics

Marvin Nakayama, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., Stanford
Simulation modeling and analysis; fault-tolerant systems; communication networks; statistics; applied probability

Jason Wang, NJIT Department of Computer Science; Ph.D., New York
Data mining and databases; knowledge engineering; software development; pattern analysis; computational biology; information retrieval and process management on the web

From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Information Systems Department

Michael Bieber, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Hypertext; hypermedia functionality; digital libraries; management information systems; group support systems; collaborative systems; process reengineering; distributed education

Fadi Deek, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., NJIT
Learning systems collaborative technologies; applications to software engineering and computer science education

Jerry Fjermestad, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Rutgers
Information systems and organizational decision making; executive information systems; technology diffusion; social impact of new technology; business process reengineering

Roxanne Hiltz, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Columbia
Collaborative systems; information systems evaluation; social impacts of computer and information systems; design of user-oriented interactive computer systems; computer-mediated communication

Ii Im, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Southern California
Customer behavior in electronic commerce; personalization systems; digital library

David Mendonca, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Modeling and supporting group decision making under conditions of risk and time constraint

Marilyn Tremaine, NJIT Department of Information Systems; Ph.D., Southern California
Auditory interfaces; mobile collaboration; interfaces for mobile computing; interfaces for telerehabilitation

From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department

Jian Yang, NJIT Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Application of combinatorial optimization to production planning and logistics problems; application of stochastic dynamic programming and other probabilistic methods to inventory control problems; applications of game theory, statistics, simulation, and other tools to real-world problems emerging from ecommerce, transportation

From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), School of Management

Asokan Anandarajan, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Drexel
Auditing; management accounting; neural networks; expert systems

Theologus Bonitsis, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., CUNY
Time series modeling; competitiveness of the U.S. economy; the trade deficit

Alok Chakrabarti, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Northwestern
Technology management; strategic management and policy analysis

Rene Cordero, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Rutgers
Human resources; management of technology and innovation

Bruce Kirchhoff, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Utah
New business formation and early stage growth; technology-based business

Kenneth Lawrence, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Rutgers
Mathematical programming; multicriteria decision making; urban and regional planning; consensus forecasting; new product demand analysis; robust regression; nonlinear regression; statistical sampling

Rajiv Mehta, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Drexel
Global marketing; marketing channel management; sales management

Hindy Schachter, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Columbia
Organizational behavior; history of scientific management; public administration; managing diversity; legal and ethical issues

Marguerite Schneider, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., Rutgers
Corporate governance; institutional investment; organizational leadership; public sector organizations

Mark Somers, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., CUNY
Attachment and commitment processes in organizations; task and unit-level technologies; occupational and organizational socialization

Cheickna Sylla, NJIT School of Management; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Operations management; decision support systems; training systems design